Written questions
2,064 written questions tabled, most recent first.
17 May 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Competition
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on how many occasions she has met the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare to discuss competition in the period since her appointment; when those meetings took place; and what was discuss
16 May 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Resettlement: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to help improve access to the private rental sector for Afghans in hotels under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy and the Afghan citizens resettlem
11 May 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Sewage: Waste Disposal
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies on wastewater discharge event duration monitors of the research by Jamie Woodward and others on Acute riverine micro
11 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Surveys
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of requiring the Office for National Statistics to continue to publish covid-19 data.
11 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Westmorland General Hospital: Radiotherapy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of providing a radiotherapy unit at Westmorland General Hospital.
10 May 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Sewage: Waste Disposal
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to increase the number of wastewater discharge event duration monitors.
10 May 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agriculture
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an estimate of the number of arable fields that were sown in each of the last five years.
9 May 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Sewage: Waste Disposal
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2023 to Question 182819, whether her Department plans to require water companies to publish the volume of sewage discharges in addition to frequency and
3 May 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Climate Change: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he will take to ensure that funding provided to the Loss and Damage Finance Facility is additional to existing climate finance commitments.
3 May 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Developing Countries: Coffee
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what support he is providing to help coffee farmers in the Global South shift to methods of production which are sustainable and resilient to climate-induced shocks.
3 May 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Coffee: Supply Chains
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help mitigate the impact of climate change on the UK's coffee supply chains.
3 May 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Coffee: Supply Chains
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made on the potential impact of climate change on UK coffee supply chains.
26 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Food
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much and what proportion of her Department's budget was spent on food for her Department in each of the last five years; and how much and what proportion of that food was produced
26 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Food: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of trends in the number of farmers on food prices.
26 Apr 2023 · Department for Education
Agriculture: Further Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding the Government has allocated to agricultural colleges in each of the last five years.
26 Apr 2023 · Department for Education
Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeship places have been available in the agriculture, environmental and animal care sector in each of the last ten years.
26 Apr 2023 · Department for Education
Apprentices: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many high-quality apprenticeship standards were available in the agriculture, environmental and animal care sector in each of the last ten years.
26 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Food: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an estimate of the proportion of food inflation that is due to the increased cost of food packaging; and what steps her Department is taking to help reduce these costs
26 Apr 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Food Banks
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data his Department holds on the number of people using food banks in each month since January 2022.
26 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
National Farmers Union
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she last met with the National Farmers Union.
26 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Supermarkets: Food
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an estimate of the quantity of food rejected each month by supermarkets on cosmetic grounds; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact
26 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Sewage: Waste Disposal
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to reduce (a) microplastic wastewater discharges and (b) illegal wastewater discharges.
26 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Sewage: Waste Disposal
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is planning to take steps to hold water companies to account by publishing wastewater discharge volumes.
26 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Sewage: Waste Disposal
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to hold water companies to account for repeated and illegal discharges of untreated wastewater.
24 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tree Planting
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the number of trees that were planted in England in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
24 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Hill Farming: Subsidies
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of withdrawing the basic payment scheme from uplands and less favourable areas on the economy.
19 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Sustainable Farming Incentive: Westmorland and Lonsdale
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farms in Westmorland and Lonsdale are part of the Sustainable Farming Incentive.
19 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Farms: Westmorland and Lonsdale
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farms in Westmorland and Lonsdale are part of Countryside Stewardship.
19 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Farms
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department holds data on the number of farm holdings in every constituency.
30 Mar 2023 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Project Gigabit: Cumbria
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what information her Department holds on the number of postcode premises in Cumbria County Council that will be classified as White under Project Gigabit's classification system by the
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